Samsung claims Apple's new sixth-generation iPhone infringes on all of these patents.

II. Adding to the Existing Dispute Doesn't Necessarily Mean a Loss for Samsung

The phonemaker wants to inject its new iPhone 5 accusations into its partially-complete current case, replacing a placeholder in the original filing referring to future products. Samsung claims, "judicial resources will be preserved" by this approach. The decision would also benefit Samsung by allowing it to potentially achieve a rapid ban on the iPhone 5 if Judge Paul S. Grewal or other judges in the case decide in Samsung's favor.

Recall that in its previous legal loss to Apple in the same court, a jury ruled that Apple's previous iPhones did not infringe on any of these Samsung patents, while finding Samsung to infringe on virtually every Apple patent asserted.

However, substantial questions regarding that ruling have been raised on several grounds -- notably that at least one juror had family members who were large Apple shareholders, that the jury was given a massive amount of arguments to consider in a narrow time window, and that some jury instructions appeared to have been biased towards Apple.

In that regard, Samsung's Aug. 24 loss before the jury may not necessary mirror the outcome in this second phase.

Samsung hopes for a better result in rount two of its Californian federal court dispute with Apple.
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Good for him. I'm all for companies actually innovating and doing unique designs. The Galaxy line has already started to diverge away from the Apple style, wouldn't you like to see this continue further?

One of the things I love about WP is how logical and functional the design of the OS and hardware while completely doing their own thing.